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Merricks v Mastercard: watch this space Premium Content
Eleanor Leedham reports on lessons learned from Mr Merricks’ multi-billion-pound action against Mastercard: what could this mean for other collective proceedings?
20 May 2022 / Eleanor Leedham
Group actions: Time to join forces? Premium Content
In the first of a special three-part series by Penningtons Manches Cooper, David Niven & Nicole Blakey sketch out the changing landscape of group actions & litigation funding in the UK
13 May 2022 / David Niven / Nicole Blakey
BT opt-out appeal fails
The Court of Appeal has unanimously rejected BT’s argument that a collective proceedings order (CPO) should be ‘opt-in’, in a mass action claiming it abused its dominant market position by charging excessive landline prices
11 May 2022
Merricks opt-out moves closer
Walter Merricks, who is bringing a pioneering ‘opt-out’ class action against Mastercard, has won the latest step in the mammoth litigation
17 March 2022
Opt-out moves closer in Merricks v Mastercard
Walter Merricks, who is bringing a pioneering ‘opt-out’ class action against Mastercard, has won the latest step in the mammoth litigation
12 March 2022
Collective proceedings orders: the story so far… Premium Content
With the floodgates beginning to open, Caroline Harbord & Candice Johnson examine the first collective competition claims under the opt-out regime
11 February 2022 / Candice Johnson / Caroline Harbord
NLJ comment: Google endures a court double of highs & lows
Google watchers will have noted the search engine giant’s ‘action-packed’ week in the courts―winning in the Supreme Court but losing in the European Court of Justice
23 November 2021
A bumpy ride ahead for Google? Premium Content
Google and its detractors suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, as David Greene reports
19 November 2021 / David Greene
Google escapes massive compensation claim
The Supreme Court has called a halt to a massive class action against Google over a data protection breach
14 November 2021
Opt-out class widens net
A second opt-out Collective Proceedings Order (CPO) has been made, this time in the £469m Justin Le Patourel v BT claim in the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT)
06 October 2021
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Law Officers mark 25 years of Pro Bono Week
The Attorney General, Ellie Reeves KC MP, and Solicitor General, Andy Slaughter KC MP, marked the 25th anniversary of Pro Bono Week by joining lawyers, charities, students and parliamentarians at events celebrating voluntary legal work
NLJ this week: Possession’s digital pitfalls
Possession claims are entering a new digital era, with procedural traps awaiting practitioners who assume familiar rules still govern every step
NLJ this week: Who shaped the witness’s story?
Witness evidence can be compromised by AI before a solicitor sees the draft, leaving safeguards focused on authorship incomplete
NLJ this week: New law, old convictions
Should a conviction stand when a later ruling reveals that the law underpinning it was wrong? The answer exposes a clash between finality and justice
NLJ this week: Beyond environmental offences
The Environment Agency can prosecute offences beyond environmental legislation where proceedings support its statutory functions, the Divisional Court has confirmed
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